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9 September 2005
Alto La Vista, Baby
Posted by at September 9, 2005 04:41 PM
I returned to work following a week off to find I'd received a bunch of new disks as part of my MSDN subscription. Among these was the latest build of Windows Longhorn, recently renamed Windows Vista.
I’ve been meaning to try Microsoft's new O/S for some time but I’ve been lacking a spare PC with sufficient grunt. So, having recently installed a copy of VMWare Workstation on my laptop I thought I’d try it in a Virtual Machine instead.
To my surprise the installation went reasonably well, the only problem being a 640x480 resolution with 4-bit colour and no network connectivity. This was cured following a bit of tinkering and installation of VMWare tools.
Internet Explorer 7.0 seems pretty stable, the tabbed browsing and support for RSS sorry Web Feeds is also welcome, but I still prefer Mozilla Firefox.
I thought it would be interesting to try some Talis apps. Talis Prism seems to work with no problems as does Talis List and Signpost.
I also tried Talis Alto, which seems to work fine, despite Vista failing the Alto compatibility Test.
All in all it's been a pretty successful experiment. Performance considering it's running in a Virtual Machine is impressive and so far I like what I've seen.
Finally, please excuse the bad pun in the title of this post. You can blame Adrian for that.
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